South American Indian people inhabiting the tributaries of the Orinoco River in Venezuela. Their language, also called Yaruro, is a member of the Macro-Chibchan linguistic group.
chain of about 20 volcanic islands in the western division of Fiji, in the South Pacific. The islands lie northwest of Viti Levu, the principal Fijian island. They were sighted in 1789 by Captain William Bligh of the British navy ...
Russian football (soccer) player considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game. In 1963 he was named European Footballer of the Year, the only time a keeper has won the award.
long, narrow face screen or veil traditionally worn in public by Muslim women. The yashmak can consist of a piece of black horsehair attached near the temples and sloping down like an awning to cover the face, or it can ...
village and former estate of the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, in Tula oblast (province), west-central Russia. It lies 100 miles (160 km) south of Moscow. Yasnaya Polyana ("Sunlit Meadows") was acquired in 1763 by C.F. Volkonsky, Leo Tolstoy's great grandfather. ...
town, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies along the Yass River, which is a tributary of the Murrumbidgee. The Yass Plains, on the Western Slopes of the Eastern Highlands, were explored in 1824 by Hamilton Hume and William Hovell. ...
original name Yasuda Shinzaburo painter who excelled in depicting historical personages in the tradition of Japanese painting but augmented them with a psychological dimension.
entrepreneur who founded the Yasuda zaibatsu ("financial clique"), the fourth largest of the industrial and financial combines that dominated the Japanese economy until the end of World War II.
county, west-central New York state, U.S., comprising a hilly upland region bounded by Canandaigua Lake to the northwest, Keuka Lake to the south, and Seneca Lake to the east. Other waterways are the West River and Flint Creek. State lands ...
city, Kumamoto ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan. It is situated along the delta of the Kuma River, facing Yatsushiro Bay. The city developed around a Shinto shrine that was built during the Heian era (794-1185). It was a castle town and ...
a Bantu-speaking people of the hilly area of south-central Cameroon who live in and around the capital city of Yaounde. The Yaunde and a closely related people, the Eton, comprise the two main subgroups of the Beti, which in turn ...
historic kingdom and traditional emirate, Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria. The kingdom was probably founded by the Reshe (Gungawa) people. The date of its founding is unknown, but by the mid-14th century it was considered one of the most important of ...
in early Indian literature, either a Greek or another foreigner. The word appears in Achaemenian (Persian) inscriptions in the forms Yauna and Ia-ma-nu and referred to the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor, who were conquered by the Achaemenid king Cyrus ...
city, northeastern Maharashtra state, western India. Yavatmal lies on major roads to Nagpur, Mumbai (Bombay), and Hyderabad. It is the regional centre of an agricultural area (cotton and wheat) and has several colleges affiliated with Amravati University. Pop. (2001) 122,676.
city, Ehime ken (prefecture), Shikoku, Japan. It lies along the Uwa Sea. A castle town and fishing port during the Tokugawa era (1603-1867), it later developed as a trade centre for silk cocoons and raw silk. The city is now ...
American professional baseball executive, sportsman, and owner of the American League Boston Red Sox (1933-76)-the last of the patriarchal owners of early baseball.
two-masted sailboat, usually rigged with one or more jibsails, a mainsail, and a mizzen. In common with the ketch, the forward (main) mast is higher than the mizzenmast, but the mizzenmast of a yawl is placed astern of the rudder ...
contagious disease occurring in moist tropical regions throughout the world. It is caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue, that is structurally indistinguishable from T. pallidum, which causes syphilis. Some syphilologists contend that yaws is merely a tropical rural form of ...
(c. 250 BC-c. AD 250), prehistoric culture of Japan, subsequent to the Jomon culture. Named after the district in Tokyo where its artifacts were first found in 1884, the culture arose on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu and spread ...
in Zoroastrianism, member of an order of angels created by Ahura Mazda to help him maintain the flow of the world order and quell the forces of Ahriman and his demons. They gather the light of the Sun and pour ...
city, central Iran. The city dates from the 5th century AD and was described as the "noble city of Yazd" by Marco Polo. It stands on a mostly barren, sand-ridden plain about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) above sea level. The ...
in full Yazid Ibn Mu'awiyah Ibn Abi Sufyan second Umayyad caliph (680-683), particularly noted for his suppression of a rebellion led by Husayn, the son of 'Ali. The death of Husayn at the Battle of Karbala' (680) made him a ...
religious sect, found primarily in the districts of Mosul, Iraq; Diyarbakir, Tur.; Aleppo, Syria; Armenia and the Caucasus region; and in parts of Iran. The Yazidi religion is a syncretic combination of Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Jewish, Nestorian Christian, and Islamic elements. ...
(Turkish: "Inscribed Rock"), Hittite monument about a mile northeast of Bogazkoy; it was the site of the Hittite capital Hattusa in eastern Turkey. Two recesses in the rock, one to the northeast and the other to the east, form natural ...
city, seat (1848) of Yazoo county, west-central Mississippi, U.S. It lies along the Yazoo River, 47 miles (76 km) northwest of Jackson. Founded as a planned community in 1826, it was later called Manchester; it was renamed for the Yazoo ...
in U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi (then a part of Georgia's western claims) to four land companies for the sum of ...
river formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha rivers north of Greenwood, Mississippi, U.S. It meanders about 190 miles (306 km) generally south and southwest, much of the way paralleling the Mississippi River, which it joins at Vicksburg. ...
Wade-Giles romanization Yeh Chien-ying Chinese Communist military officer, administrator, and statesman who held high posts in the Chinese government during the 1970s and '80s.
time required for the Earth to travel once around the Sun, about 365 14 days. This fractional number makes necessary the periodic intercalation of days in any calendar that is to be kept in step with the seasons. In the ...
any of certain economically important single-celled fungi, most of which are in the class Ascomycetes, only a few being Basidiomycetes. Yeasts are found worldwide in soils and on plant surfaces and are especially abundant in sugary mediums such as flower ...
most important Irish painter of the 20th century. His scenes of daily life and Celtic mythology contributed to the surge of nationalism in the Irish arts after the Irish War of Independence (1919-21).
Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
city, Murcia provincia and comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community"), southeastern Spain. It lies north of the city of Murcia, on the Arroyo del Jua (a tributary of the Segura River) at the slopes of the Cerro del Castillo. The Stone Age ...
Soviet physician who, with cosmonauts Vladimir M. Komarov and Konstantin P. Feoktistov, was a participant in the first multimanned spaceflight, that of Voskhod ("Sunrise") 1, on Oct. 12-13, 1964, and was also the first practicing physician in space.
Russian cross-country skier who was one of the two most decorated performers at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. She won three gold medals and a silver in 1994, adding to the three gold and two silver medals ...
city, Moscow oblast (province), western Russia. It lies along the Glushitsy River southeast of the capital. The city of Yegoryevsk was formed in 1778 from the village of Vysokoye and became an important trading centre, especially for grain and cattle ...
city and administrative centre of Sverdlovsk oblast ("region"), west-central Russia. The city lies along the Iset River, which is a tributary of the Tobol River, and on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, slightly east of the border between ...
